“You stated that the proof suggests the shooter had a leftist ideology. I’ve watched the Trump administration within the days since saying that there’s a crackdown on what they name the unconventional left, with out defining it. That’s now vital, that we shouldn’t be pondering of this because the act of 1 man. We must be pondering of it as the result of some broader community, tradition, ideology, that if that is to be a protected society must be repressed, suppressed, destroyed. What have you considered that?” “So I’ve clearly heard that. I’ve tried to watch out in a few methods. One, my political ideology and my religion teaches that each particular person is chargeable for their very own actions, that we have now company and that it’s the best reward that we’ve been given as human beings. And this particular person made a really, very, very horrible resolution. And as a society, we have to maintain that particular person accountable to, once more, to the best extent of the regulation. And I at all times warning towards eradicating company from an individual, that this particular person didn’t have a selection, that this particular person acted as a result of he had been acted upon. I feel that’s an enormous mistake. I feel that’s an intolerant ideology. And it’s one thing that I reject when the left does it and I reject when the precise does it. As to the radicalization piece, and once more, I do know that wasn’t outlined as radical left or no matter that’s. I feel we do want a deeper dive to know what’s radicalization and the way does radicalization occur. And are there issues we are able to do to stop that from taking place. And so that may be a worthy dialogue. However we have now to do this throughout the bonds of our Structure and throughout the bounds of the regulation. Look, I don’t get to talk for Charlie. I don’t and I don’t presume to —— I didn’t have a relationship like Vice President Vance or others. And so I simply —— I need to be clear about that. However one of many issues I really appreciated about Charlie was his protection of being prepared to point out up on campus and have interaction his protection of the founders’ imaginative and prescient for our nation, his protection of free speech.” “I am going round universities and have difficult conversations. And I’m —— as a result of that’s what’s so essential to our nation, is to seek out our disagreements respectfully, as a result of when individuals cease speaking, that’s when violence occurs.” “His phrases about if we cease speaking to one another, that’s when the violence begins.” “When individuals cease speaking, that’s once you get violence. That’s when Civil Struggle occurs, since you begin to assume the opposite aspect is so evil they usually lose their humanity.” “I don’t assume you could take away this, a radical ideology by means of simply pure repression or the means of presidency enforcement. I feel it’s going to take extra speech and extra daylight and extra disagreement, extra phrases and fewer violence. Now, once more, if there’s a manner to do this, I’m actually open to understanding it. However I really assume that the reply to eliminating what acquired us into this example just isn’t extra of that, the kind of factor that these anarchists or evil individuals have brewing of their souls.”
